The Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food Rule

The requirements of the rule do not apply to transportation by ship or air because of limitations in the law. 

The goal of this rule is to prevent practices during transportation that create food safety risks, such as failure to properly refrigerate food, inadequate cleaning of vehicles between loads, and failure to properly protect the food products. 

Specifically, the Sanitary Transportation rule would establish requirements for:

• Vehicles and transportation equipment. The design and maintenance of vehicles and transportation equipment to ensure that it does not cause the food that it transports to become unsafe.
• Transportation operations. The measures taken during transportation to ensure food safety, such as adequate temperature controls, preventing contamination of ready to eat food from touching raw food, protection of food from contamination by non-food items in the same load or previous load, and protection of food from cross-contact.
• Training. Training of carrier personnel in sanitary transportation practices and documentation of the training.
• Records. Maintenance of records of written procedures, agreements and training.

For more information, please visit the Penn State Extension FSMA section.

This program was developed by Food Safety CTS, LLC, for Penn State Extension. Supported by a USDA NIFA Food Safety Outreach Program grant titled "Bilingual Produce Safety Educational Programming for Hispanic/Latino Fresh Produce Growers and Farmworkers in Pennsylvania," USDA NIFA Award number 2017-70020-27236